5TH GRADE POETS READ THEIR WORK
‘tornado’ poems also go on display
St. Helena, April 2012----Fifth graders from St. Helena Elementary School will take up a corner at the Napa Valley Coffee Roasting Company in St. Helena (1400 Oak Avenue at Adams Street) on Friday April 6 from 9:30 until 11:30 a.m. to read poems they’re written and enjoy complimentary hot cocoa.
Teacher Terilynn Buchanan has been conducting a poetry curriculum this spring, which included a poetry reading session at the school library and the taping of poems on the floor of classrooms and the school entrance. This will have a grand finale at The Roasting Company on April 6; students will use a small microphone to simulate the feel of Jack Kerouac and the Beat poets. The poems will also be displayed at The Roasting Company for several weeks. “Think tornados,” explains Buchanan: “the poems look like strips which hang in a twist,” she said.
“This is the second year we’ve done this with the fifth graders from across the street,” says Manager Doug Dunlap. “This is just one way we fit into the life of our small town,” he adds.
